exercise · all tools
Body Hide
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Four players try to hide a fifth using nothing but their own bodies while everyone else looks for any visible patch of clothing, shoe or skin. Each round removes a hider, until the group works out that a wall or a corner is allowed.
Hold with care
- The source names the point plainly — it is an exercise in learning to touch each other — and the hidden person is enclosed by four others while the rest of the group inspects them for exposed skin
- Being the hidden one should be volunteered for and easy to decline; the source asks for volunteers and does not say more
- Not appropriate where being closely surrounded is claustrophobic, or where the group's norms about touch have not been established
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- 6–∞ · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- behavioral-rehearsal, somatic-awareness
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- improvencyclopedia.org/games/Body_Hide.html — Improv Encyclopedia, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
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Origin
Unattributed; compiled by Improv Encyclopedia — Improvisational theatre
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status: checked · added 2026-08-31